A Morning Reverie Poem by Michael J ORourke2

The morning sung catches me unawares
'Tis dawn, Tis daw' the golden finch blares
My eyes gaze out on a desolate sea
To a fisherman's trawl beyond a statuesque tree.
The beach and the driftwood share an unholy alliance
While skeletal branches shoot up in the defiance
Silhouetted against the sky rest the antlers of a deer
An island mythology looks ancient yet clear
The forest deer roamed too far from home
To the water's edge and the oceans foam
The metamorphosis completed the Daufuskie tale
'Olympia rejoice; Might Zeus we hail.'
The myths of the deer would never cease
Since the gods desired a sculptured piece
Aurora smiles as the pelican flies,
'Never stray too far from paradise.'